The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-12-24

whether before the cross or after our
Lord was nailed to it and suffered it's
agony. He may have died OF exhaustion
consequent upon prolonged suffering,
or as DR.. Stroud suggests, from a sud
den rupture of the heart compelling i'm
mediate dissolution.
ANDREW CARNEGIE's address before
the Nineteenth Century Club in New
York, on triumphant Democracy" was
evidently very strong and sensible pro-
duction and worthy of the fame of the
author of the now celebrated book which
has caused such a stir in Great Brit
ain. Mr.. Carnegie is one of the acutest
observers of the time, with nothing what
ever pessimistic in his make up. He
believes in democracy and the good
sense of the American people, and has
the facts and figures always at hand to
justify his faith. In this address he re-
viewed Rev. Heber Newton's criticism
on his book, and discussed the alleged
"seven perils of the republic which Mr..
Newton presented. Immigration, Mr..
Carnegie said, was not increasing faster
than the native population, as asserted,
and he quoted the census to prove it. We
do not get the scum of Europe, but the
thrifty and ambitious. He made short
work with the assertion that the encroach-
ments of Romanism were to be feared, and
quoted the fact that in Rome itself the
Pope had been stripped of temporal
power as good reason for the belief that
America had nothing to fear from this
source. The menace of Mormonism
amounted to little since the Gentiles in
Utah could take care of the nselves, being
double the Mormon population. The
fourth peril, intemperapce, ne thought
was not increasing. "Fhe diminishing
collection of taxes on liquor was attract
ing attention here, and IL Great Britain
was seriously disturbing the budget"
Socialism was not, he declared product
of democr acy but an exotic. Socialls m
and Anarchy had tried fall with dem
ocracy in Chicago" and had got decid-
eddy the worst of the experiment. Con-
Guiding, Mr.. Carnegie said
There is no such thing as pauperism in
this country except what springs from bad
habits and inherited disease. Let Socialists
name the laws they would change. RepreseD-
tatlve worklngmen supported the present
laws; it was the blotches aud the scum who
talked otherwise, and fancied these were
Labor" The healthy independence of la
Dor was discus sed by the speaker, who allud-
ed to the more frequent and longer strikes
in monarchial countries and among the igno-
rant of this country. Regarding the Soon
gestion of Wealth" he thought the tendency
was toward the distrib1 tion of su oh fortunes
as those of the Astors and Vanderbilts,
| some of whose descendants of the third gen.
GRAFTON woul be working for the grandsons
of their present employees. AS for surplus
money" the time would come when to die
| rich would be to die dis graced Private
liberality was to be the antidote to that
peril.
These are sound and hopeful views,
and coming from one who has had a
large experience with the wo kingmen
of the country, and who studies democ-
racy from practical and not doctrinaire
standpoint, they are entitled to attention.
We would give more for Mr.. Carnegie's
opinions on such questions than for the
whole brood of slarmists who are now
SO busy in running up the danger sig
nails and predicting all sorts OF terrible
consequences as the result of the inclu-
sive spirit of our institutions. 1t is more
faith in the hard common sense of the
people, and in the instinct of self .protec-
ton and devotion to the principles of
genuine democracy in all emergencies of
our national life that is the need, and not
less; and such talk as this Of Mr.. Carne-
gie's is 9TH wholesome and reassurinR.